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Not that the incredulous person doesn’t believe in anything. It’s just that he doesn’t believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and methodical, avoidind wide horizons. If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a thing that connects them, that’s credulity. ”
—Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum (1989).
